Example sentences of "to us [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The trees sang to us of a darkening age |
2 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
3 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
4 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
5 | I had become engaged to Leading Seaman Arthur Saunders RNVR who was serving in HMS Reading , a fourstacker loaned to us under the lease-lend arrangements . |
6 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
7 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
8 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
9 | The next issue of Leads is scheduled for January 1990 and the copy deadline for you to submit information to us for the back page is 15 December 1989 . |
10 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
11 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
12 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
13 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
14 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
15 | There was a short silence then the dogs ' barking grew into a raucous row ; shouts and the shrill of hunting horns carried clear to us as a fat buck , together with two hinds , galloped from the trees and across the meadow in a flurry of snow . |
16 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
17 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |
18 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
19 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
20 | The concretion conveys a subtle message to us at a subconscious level . |
21 | Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised . |
22 | Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream . |
23 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
24 | And I think we 've reached the stage , where the county council said , you come to us with a new initiative , and we 're far more likely to be , bend over to help you , than , than under the present . |
25 | He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development . |
26 | Because even after you 've applied and your policy has been issued you still have 14 days to return it to us with no financial obligation . |
27 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
28 | That 's not always attractive cos initially that 's more expensive for them , but er they ha they have to er come to us with an open mind as well . |
29 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
30 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |